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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Purely
Cancer
Sake
Growth
Philosophy

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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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